Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. ~ William Stafford

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~ Fran Lebowitz

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~ Thomas Szasz

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next. ~ Franklin P. Jones

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children. ~ Robert Benchley

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This site offers a daily column on current events, and unlike other blogs, in long form. Short posts pointing to this and that and saying "Oh my!" seems a bit lazy. Columns here are an attempt to think things through. If you'd like to come along for the ride, fine. If you have neither the time nor patience for that, that is also fine - you can click on the LINKS tab at the top of the page and visit the sites that offer quick hits. Those provide the raw material for the analyses here.

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JUST ABOVE SUNSET has been online, in various formats, since May 2003. Click on the ABOUT tab at the top of the page for more on that, and a note on who I am.